Qatar's lack of infrastructure and soccer tradition, combined with questions about the country's human rights record and bribery allegations, made it the most controversial World Cup host nation ever when it was picked back in 2010.

With seven years to go until the 2022 World Cup those initial questions haven't been answered.

In fact, things seems to be getting worse.

1. A human rights agency estimates that 4,000 construction workers will die building World Cup-related infrastructure.

Qatar and FIFA developed a new human rights protocol to deal with the allegations, but human rights watchers say they don't go far enough.

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Sean Gallup/Getty Images A worker takes a break at a construction site next to new high-rise office buildings and hotels under construction in Doha. 2. Qatar is allegedly using "modern-day slavery" to build the infrastructure.

The Guardian had a big report about the mistreatment of Nepalese migrant workers in Qatar. The workers — some of whom are working on the planned city which will host the 2022 World Cup final — accused their employers of withholding pay, forcing them to work in heat without water, making them live in squalid camps, and confiscating their passports to keep them from leaving the country.

There are 1.4 million migrant workers in Qatar, many of whom can't leave unless their employers grant them an exit visa. An ESPN feature on a worker camp outside Doha showed their awful living conditions.

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ESPN A migrant camp outside Doha. 3. There were widespread bribery allegations around the 2010 vote that gave Qatar the tournament, and several officials who voted later received bans in other corruption scandals.

" Today's decision by the Chairman of the Adjudicatory Chamber contains numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations of the facts and conclusions detailed in the Investigatory Chamber's report," he said.

FIFA wrote long, detailed reports on each country's bid before its executive committee members voted on a 2022 World Cup host city. In each of those reports was an operational risk assessment for things like stadium construction, transportation, and accommodations.

In its bid, Qatar said it would hold the tournament in June and July. The FIFA report called that a "potential health risk" before the vote.

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FIFA 6. FIFA moved the tournament to winter, which will decimate the world's biggest and most important domestic leagues.

During the bidding process, Qatar said they would host the event in summer with the help of space-age cooling technologies.

Less than five years later, those technologies remained untested on a large scale, and the idea has been abandoned. The tournament will now be held in November-December because the 105-degree heat makes it impossible to play in June-July.

Europe's biggest leagues are outraged. A winter World Cup will force them to suspend play for nearly three months in the middle of the season. The European Club Association demanded that FIFA compensate them for revenue lost during that period, but FIFA is taking a hard line.

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Vimeo7. The 2021 Confederations Cup, an important pre-World Cup test event, can't be held there because of the heat.

Qatar has to build all of the infrastructure for the World Cup from scratch. Traditionally, the Confederations Cup — an international tournament featuring the best teams from each continent — serves as a test event for this World Cup infrastructure 12 months before the tournament.

All of the venues need to be built from scratch. As we saw with the record $50-billion Sochi Olympics, building these things from scratch is an incredibly expensive and unpredictable enterprise.

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Clive Rose/Getty Images9. Including supporting infrastructure, it's going to cost $200 billion — four times the amount Russia spent on the historically expensive Sochi Olympics — to stage the World Cup in Qatar.

While Qatar has more liberal policies than many Middle Eastern countries, it still has strict anti-gay laws. FIFA president Sepp Blatter recommended that gay men who want to go to the World Cup should "refrain from any sexual activities."

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Sean Gallup/Getty Images 13. It'll get drowned out by football in America.

The World Cup is the only time when mainstream America pays attention to soccer. In November-December, it will face competition from the NFL, NBA, and college football.